We had the pleasure to talk with Audrey Albert, maker, artist and photographer. Born in Mauritius with Chagossian origins, her research-led practice enables her to consider and investigate themes of national identity, collective memory, displacement, tradition, and denial. Our conversation was focused on her work, Chagossian narratives, our Kreol language and other transcending themes that, we hope, will resonate in our Mauritian, Chagossian, Rodriguan, Agalegan audiences, or at the very least encourage you all to start questioning why we are so unaware by the plight of the Chagossian people, whose uprooting was the cornerstone on which Mauritian independence was sadly built.

Opening music credits by DJ Mimi96 (Pink Islands Collective)

Cover art by Valérie Latreille

Sources  : 

• https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/43047/documents/781 

• https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and 

• https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=25799 

• https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20230102-%C3%AEles-chagos-les-n%C3%A9gociations-entre-londres-et-maurice-sur-la-souverainet%C3%A9-de-l-archipel-ont-d%C3%A9but%C3%A9 

• https://chagossianvoices.org/

• https://www.chagossupport.org.uk/

• Charlesia Alexis: The Struggle Of The Chagossian Women, S. Evers and M. Kooy

• The Last Colony, Philippe Sands

• Madame Liseby Elysé’s testimony at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, 2019

• Le Silence des Chagos, Shenaz Patel